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A Decree suPpressing the presnet Administration of the Post Orfice, and lastly, A Decree suppressing the Board of Trade, Mint, and Mines.. Such are the occupations of JOSEPH, who, in point of thundering De„crees, is certainly not behiqd hand with his worthy brother. - • , • TERCEL, SEP 2.—The 'Superior Junta of At*- ration has received advice, dated We 20th ult. that 600 - French, with two pieceS of artillery, ,•tvho were on their march for the rich town of Caspe, were -cornpletely routed by the peasantry an&some volun teers, so that very few of_ them returned to their head-quarters at Alcanez. On the sth of the same month 300 Arragonese volunteers attacked, in IV.latlia, 117 FrenCh, - who were in that town, killed 92, and took from them all the plunder they. had made in. that-town and its vicinity. 7 --(Spilie Government Gazette, Sept. 16.) Ea 4.AT og.—ln our article, of yesterday, respeaing the Ly ceum Theatre, instead of "a correa W:ord," read " current word." , PRICE OF STOC . KS • THIS DAY AT TWE LV E Consols - ; • - . 4 4 68 ti POETUGUESE PAPERS. SEVILLE, SEPT. 2 . o.—The Supreme Board of Go rernment of theltingdom. wishing the' laws - relative to the press, and to newspapers, to be enforced, has 'or4ered the Supreme Council of - Spain and the In,- (1,8 to superintend that Departmeot, as it had ever done before, and accordingly the - Council has-a,il - D. I\lntluEL LOKDIZABEL to take cogni zance of whatever relates to the ..press. TItEUL, SEPT. 4.--;,The unhltppy inhabitants of Saragossa, who have, survived . - he most dreadful siege..., and the most destruEliVe epidemy, are 'now 'undergoing a treatment scarcely less hard than death • itself. After so many Calamities, the barbarous Str- CHET has-levied upon them elorbitant contributions; and allowed his soldiers-to cut down the corn before it was ripe to feed their horses,without being moved, soy thl tears of the nrifortanate. widows and orphans. To thise are added many - other vexations, one of • Which is, that no one upwaits of fourteen years old, can go about the streets without a permit for that purpose, tc> l which he must pay. SEPT. h.—The.Commissioner of . , sent.intelligence, under yesterday's,loile, t h at Ole enemy occupy nearly the same i l ers'itionS they did previous to the relief of Gero,:o; notwiihstand- ing w hich, (heir fire - gpon the, fortress has considera bly slackened. A TARAAGONA, SEPT. 1.--As tan greatest scarcity prevalls in Barceions, the French Gover9meot i bavi dire&ed.vessels la en tv'ith provisions to be field in readiness in all 11,e harbours on the coast between Ts)ulon and Cape Creus, which are to - sut sail for Bar- celona the tpment I.l3cyare Eo ordered, under cop. , - voy of a 17i - ench soadron frorn Toulon. • - The English Admiral, COLLINGW 00D; WhO is. 13lockading the latter, has made the . best dispesitions, for preventing this operation, to. which end he has. divided his, fleet into several squadrons, ‘ and sent a 74 gun ship, the Conqueror, Capt. Fut. Lows, to re inforce and take the command of the blockade of Barcelona. cUID.ND RDDIIIC39, SEPT: 4.—Two Alemters of the 13.0ard of Old Cak-ile, who are just arrived here, state, that there are 2000. Frenchmen in Burgos, but that in F k urgos de O ma, Aranda, and the adloitiing towns, thoy have only a few detachrnents of cavalry and infantry. NEY's division is, stationed between -Salamanca arid 'Toro. SANTA CitUZ . pFe SErf.Litie French who were in Cohnenar, Chencilose, and Ar 7 gatpanda, have fallen t?..lC'4 towards Alcala, in which . . dire4Stion another divi.6on is also proceeding, has plundered the towns and villages on .the Saw:, de Toiedo.—.- (Gibrultar Chronicle, Sept. 20.) SEVILLE, SEPT. 2. -- Decrees, issued by the Usurper, from the 18th, to the 2(1 of August, both days A Decree for suppressing the religiouz orders, di,- reaing every member oftheseorderi to return to his native place, where he shall receive:the allowance pronlised in February. This allowaine, wliicb was -then licitited • to, ten teals,^ was shortly after curtailed to six, and is probably reduced. at present to nought. A Pecree fgrbidding them to peach, or to -Lear confessions, until. they have obtained fresh licenses; they May hold curacies, prebends, &c. No poor comfort t A Decree authorising the Bishops to make use of the convents, if wanted, for clivirte-A.Korship. A Decree to pit- - vent the sale of any part, of the property of hospitals or charitable' institutions. A Decree abolishing the. class of the Grandees, and all titles. His Majesty will create a new no bility, and settle the style of addresses ; the present titularies will be allowed, to make good their claimsj by producing their ancient diplomas. A Decree abolishing all the Councils, excel)! the Coqnc4 of. State. A a t c(ee depriving placemen of their places, for Vihich ., hey will haye to sue again. De 4:lt ;Jo paq . ckf the-Public Debt to coi.:_‘,l:3F. .s. 1- shall have been THE SIJN. SOLLIA QUIS_DICZRE FALSUM AUDCAT ? L 0 1V D .0 1%7 THURSDAY, OCTOBER 3g, 1809. Ws have made some more extracts trom the 11/Y0- respe&ing Lord WELLINGTON, who has lately bad the honour of having near 20 columns of . , that Paper employed in:abusing him. We are told that he is totally destitute of military sicilt ) -- anci‘ that aert; is nothing the French wish for :.so much - as that he should - continue at' the head of our army.— It is, really a singular act of kindness in, I.3voszts pArta:c to, point out to us the defedts of our Generals. We should have' thotiglit, - that, if Lord ilY.E.LlVG was_so vary- ignorant-of-his profession, so very incompetent to command ,army, and if litrox.s- PARTE Vi,;S, therefore, so very anxious that he should remain at the head of it,-- s -we should have thought, we say, that liVONAPARTE WOLIId not have taken so much pains to display his Lordship's, errsirs, and thereby to induce the People of Englaisd to wish for his ream' val. The .(a& thot, in - this. instance, SI7OI4APAIITE'S rage has got the better of jud4- merit, and the victories which Lord WELLINGTON hai obtained over saute of the most celebrated Freinch Generals, have rendered him an obje& of pessoN s l dislike to the Corsican :. hence_ all the columns of abuse poured out against him in the itioniteam We are - also favoured in the same Paper with sorne observationS respeding the capture of the Island of Walcheren., Every. epithet of abuse is lavished upon the authors ,of that I;:spedition,, and a great deal,of atfeEted commi3eration is bestowed upon the soldiers who are exposed to so unhealthy a elhnate. With regard to the observations upon the Expedition to Walcheren, we have only to repeat, what we said before respe&ing Lord WEI.L,INGTObT. It the Ex pedition was so very absurd, if it is likely to pro s , duce such, bad consequences to . this Country, why , should' BUC NAPA be so very ansgry ? Why should he lose his teinperbecan se We 9niplpy unskilful Generals, or attempt injudicious expeditions ? Why should he be So treinblingly anye• to our interests, as to manifest such unbounded, rage at. our adoption of aline of conduct which he assures u, is most ad mirably 'calculated to promote, his .views ?, With respe& to the commiseration expressPd for our soldiers exposed to the unhealthy climate :of Wstl clieren, we are, we confess, very Much disposed to question its, sincerity.' We recolle& that a French Marshal boasted, last year, that .he had met with sixteen English stragglers in Spain, and that he . ordered his army to butcher them, and we retollc& also, that this glorious achieve ' ment was' pompously announced in a Bulletin by BIJONAPAVTE, whci is now so' interested about the health of our soldiers in. Waleheren. We are happy in having it in our 'power to afford . some relief to his tender mind upon this subject, by assuring him that the illness among our troops is rapidly decreas ing, and if he should wish to ascertain that fa& by personal Observation, .tlle) will be ready and happy -to receive him. , - As it mmy be inferred, from a Statetnegt which ha s appeared in the public Papers, that Lord CAmpat4 with-held from Lord CA STLE3EAGH a CWIII3IIO icat ion - which he had been desired to make to him, it is neces:, sary that it should be understood,' that however Mr 'CANNING might have conceived the t communication alluded to, to have been made to Lord CAI , fIDEN it was never stated to Lord CAMDEN that the commu nication. was made al the desire of Mr. CANNIIIG, and,thatso far from Lord CAPotEIN hating been au thorised to make the communication to Lord CAS ? TLEREAPH, he-was absolutely restricted from so do, As it may plsp be inferred, that Lord CAMDEN was eue6led,to prepare Lord CitsTLEaEOn's mind for any proposed change, it is necessary that it should be understood, that Lord • CAMDEN never engaged to communicate to Lord CASTLEREAGH any circum stances respef.ting it 4 before the termination of the . it Las been confidently stated, that Mr. Yoß4p . . was to succeed Lord L. GOw.ett as. Secretary at War, but we have reason to believe that no such arrange. ! Inept has taken place. Some. of the Letters recently received from Por tugal state, that Lord WELLINGTON 15 seriously hi, disposed. We are- not able from authority - to -con -tradici this report, but we have reason to believe that neither Goveinment' nor his frintls have re- 'ceived any accounts to that effea, , We this morning received Portuguese Papers to the tit inst. and the GiOaltar CAronicle of the 30th ult. Extracts from which will be found in a subie quent coluMn. Several of our contemporaries have amused them selves and their readers with conjectures reSpecting the terms of.the peace between Austria and Vrance According to 'sortie of ttlem, he has resigned the title of Emperor`of Austria, and ceded all his do minions, with the exception of Hungary and hernia. We have already expressed our apprehen sions that the peace is, , humiliating to, Austria, but we can hardly . suppose that she -would' consent to such terms as those we have alluded to. T NAPARTE had the me cf.diaigiing.sucb terms, the Negotiation would not, we think, have lasted so long. But it is useless to waste time in idle specii lations upori,..this Subiecr3r, as we have no doubt that we shall in a 'IOW d;rys ;-eceive au 7 zutaeLitlc... accou.vit of the Treaty.. Yesterday, about twelve &clock, his MAJEsTy ar rived at the Queen's Paint ,le, from Windsor, where he was received 1:1 their Royal Highuesses' the Dukes of YORK, KENT, and CVNIBERLAND. Soon after two o'clock his MAJESTY held a pri vate Levee, which was. attended The Archbishop of Capterhpry, the First 'Lord of the Treasury and Chancellor or the. Exchequer, the Secretaries of State tor the Horne and Ir . oiwn andl rish Departments. th e L or d .resident of the Countil,.the President of tin . Load of Controui, the Commander in Chief, -the Duke e,f, Montrose., Lord C. Spencer (in waiting,) General Graharn, Colonels Maxwell and. Bunbury, Rev. Dr. Andrews, the Rev. Mr. Wm. Bentirick, 114esrs. the Hon. Frederick West ((' rooin in waiting,) l'awkencr, W. Pole, and Croker. The following. had the the honour of being pre. seated to his M4J,ESTY ;---- The Rev. William Benrinck, upon his being appointed a Prebend of Westminster Abbey, by Lord Charles Spencer. Vie Rev. Dr. Andrews, upon his being appointed Dean of Canterbury. Major- General Graham, -upon his return from Watcheren. Leutenant,Coloriel Maxwell, of the Carneronians, upon ltis ite•air,n ;tom Walcheren. • Mr. Wellesley Pole, ,upon his being. appointed Chief Se crcrary `?"the Lord Lientepant of Ireland. Croger, upon leis bghig appointLd Secretary to the Ad miralty. , . . Licatermt. COlonel Burkhury, Quarter-Master-General to the Farces in the Mediterranean, upon his return horn fordo service. . - His MAJESTY held a Privy Council,.g..o which Mr. WELLusaY VOLE was introduced, and sworn in a Member, and - Look his seat at the HO n. Board ac cordingly. Flis k.Asi.'5TY gave audiences to Mr. PER'CEVAL, t 'll,, rest ot the Cdbir,2t Ministers present, and Sic D. - , The ilionitevr., of the gth -,of:o6to::er,, contains tome rernar , ks, in the shaLle . Of notes, Oil Oh krvatious of an English Paper, of d t.3th Sep . . ember, relative to the•oonclnd of Lord Waling iori in Spain. • Enci.isK.PtqEit.—"7 We - hate said, that in a military poini of view ihe movements Lorizi Wcklingtoii were, regu tated by his own choice." Notefif tllo4oniteur.._,-Loo Wellington, has been very fortnnate to reach .the banks of the Tagus, to he able to cover himseil by the river, and thu4 escape total' destrueiion ; but that his retreat was regulated by his own .choice, is a thing which cap only be said in Eraland, and will be' believed. no where.. Why then ,yid not Lord, 'Wellington. retire - by Placentia, where his magazines were ? At least, why did he not pass the Tagus over the river of 4linaraz ?. Why did he pass that river by the bridge of Arzobispo, whence he• made his retreat' over moun tains, and. by scarcely practicable roads ?' Certainly such a retreat as this coUld not be a voluntary re - - treat ; and Lord' - Wellington, unless .we suppose flirnaauqlly insane, could - never haVe taken, that di.- realion of his own choice. " Lord IVellington preserved, during ten days, a. position in which the French troops, had they•thoughttheinseives strong' enough, might . have'attacked our army, and left it no other means of escaping but vidory." Note.—Tbis is a very singular assertion, when, ac t. cording to the noble custom of the English, Lord - Wellington had abandoned the army of Cuota, w hb had been beaten on are< Tagus, and lost 35 pieces of cant/n, and all his ammunition. The writer asks w,hy the French did not pursue t he English arrrry.They did pursue it ; for they came up with the rear guard. rihis rear guard, it is true, was composed only of the- , troops of Ctiesta ; but they were there as allied troops, and Inlde a part of the pursued army. 'The Freneb. too, destroyed that portion of this army, which they overtook. Two things certainly result from, this first,, that the rear-guard of Lord Wellington was destroyed ; and secondly, that Lord Wellington having to give the post of-honour either to the English troops, or those of the Spaniards„of whom. he speaks std ill, determined in favour of the Spanish troops: The post of honour in an army is that which is nearest the enemy. When Francis. I. sent to re' demand the sword of constable from the Constable of Bourbon, the 'attar replied; " The King took it from me on the 8.4 ) , When he gave the command of the adiaticed gone, to the Duke of Alencon." Lord Wellington had not 111e_same sentiments with the, brave chevaliers of those times. He does nor piquet hitriself on keeping tor' hirnself the post of . honour ; he gives it up to l,isatlies. the'rietich, after hav ing, beaten his rear guard, might hav e en t ere d P or ta.- gal, but they did ~not wish . it, tecause it was then the month of August ; because the climate is tet4 : at that season ; because only madmen; such as those who dix'66t the English Government, would, in Ole. months of Augnst and Septemb e r, exp ose _, ar , arts): to perish in the marshes of Walcheren, or in tits sands of Estremadqra. ": i ." It is certain that he was'deceived hi his expediation Of, finding provisions,'and.the means conveyance. The chatg Of. want of foresight‘made against Lord Wellington, falls -4 itself." , ~ w fantil:les p rovisions is 0 1 " -Note.—Thq.pretext ways the excuse of Generals who 'are beaten, or , wlra are, renciared • unable to do any thing. Would not. one :A.t . ppow Lord Wellington commanded an artrY of 300,000 infantry, and 40,000 cavalry'? When General his an ariny so considerable, the procuring of provisions play give him ,soine trouble, but cannot absolutely stop his progress. 'Can it be believed, that an army of 26,009 men could not find subsistence in a country where towns are so numerous?. Such. an army is only a strong division, which a single•towo of Spain could maintain for twn months. liesides if Lord Wellington was uneasy with respea subsistence of his army, why did he abandonbig - magazines His line of operation and his magazines were upon and at Plasentia-,--why did he suffer 'FP' centia to be taken ? Why ? 13ecanse this General a Sepoys had the imprudence to advance to the veil middle of Spain, wiihont knowing either what frgcq was befoye him, or .wha-, tipon his flanks. We see, by his dispatches, e that he sometimes believed that the Duke of Dalmatia had but 8000 men, and some' times that he had 16,000. Under these false stir positions, he bad proposed to divide his forces, to go and attack the Duke of Dalmatia; when a ll on sudden, and• - too late, he: learned, that thi s. sard°, Duke was advancitig upon, him, with a corps a l ' 60 .4 000 men. Fle . then in the utmost he was in . the right. t - lad• be been. ainus t d aCP7' lavera, instead of being attacked, aid had tot the T agu ,, ..44 , 94..imiiie by sat . "tieing the corps cuiar and local circumstances permit t, ct him to pa! he left bellirick him, not a soldier of his arrriy.wo ol ,`" have again sewn England. It ever there was aGe nt'ral wanting foresight, It is certainly Lord Welltoii ton. It he should long Command the English arrtfter we may flat er ourselves with obtaining a d va ntage. f rom the brilliant combinations 9f-a Gneral experienced in the trade of war.. •, We are told that the French have a numerous flotilla Ur! • der the protediOn of the batteries , of if they should dare to come forward s we shall, no doubt, give, a good 45" count of them." Note.—What a prudent .resolution t We should be Very happy, shOuld the English establish therd' selves' in the Island of Waicheren, in order to. retain, it. When we choose, to drive them out„ we can 01 9 . it ; and then it, will not be a simple garrison o f 2 or, 3(100 men who tiiilst lay down their arms, but entire corps of . 15,000 ,or 20,000. ENGLISH PArEß—Passgein a Letter from an Officeat fiushing- r -" I saw in a wagon 13 Officers of the 69th ref ment, - suifering under this cruel disorder." .Noie.—lf the malady which 'affe6ls the Eng) ls " army were the consequence of laborious marches the great fatigues of a long campaign, or of some foreseen causes, the English soldiers ought to, support with courage the evitsnwvitably attached to the net ble proiession of arms.' When maladies are a scourge of the climate—when it is known to the w hole ~world, that to send an army to the Isle oflWalehereil .in the. months of Augnst, September, 06tober; and even half of November, to expose it 'to' certain' destrnetion—w hen it is only necessary to consult the ' meaneSt . Of the fishermen of, the Scheldt, to leare• that dysenteries, hospital disorders, pernicious fevers , and even the plague itself, are less .dangerous than the maiAles which prevail in the Isle of t 'Walchere o at this season of the year, we cannot but pity the fate of the English soldiers. The frantic; ignoran 6 'or criminal men, who have thrown so many braio -fellows into certain danger, deerve not only their an ia:adversions, but that of the gellerousi of all coon' tries. The Admiralty will make a conspicuous figure 60 the day of the Jubilee. A grand allegwical trans' parency is to be exhibited on the front gate, all tilf windows in the area are to be illuminated,With part)" coloured lamps, and the missy columns of the pa' tico are to be ornamented with - serpentine lines 0 file same manner. We yesterday gave some extraas Of letters frog ) the North of Spain. We have since been tavutire ct with the following : • e CORUNNA, OCT. B.—The greatest . . tratitpliJi t i e prevails in this part of the country, and we have 11 01 the least expectation of being visited by the Frencli. The Conde de .bl.uktoraA stall commands this pr Of v,inces lie is a man of abilities, and is much liked' The Defender brig, which lately arrived from Err }and, "has brought with her 10,00 stand of areio , Which she is 'now unloading, for the use 0f.j126 Pa' triots. . • •••••••••••1 Parliament was yesterday further prorogued . fro the 2d of Noveuiber to the beginning of Dececabif4